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Law enforcement, first responders in Virginia honoring public safety telecommunicators this week
For the rest of the week, towns, cities, and counties around southwest and central Virginia are celebrating the men and women who serve as 911 dispatchers, the unseen heroes of public safety. According to the City of Roanoke, Congress proclaimed the second week of April as National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week in 1991.
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UK's first hijab-wearing firefighter wants fire brigade to 'represent the community we serve'
A woman has opened up about breaking down stereotypes to become the first operational hijab-wearing firefighter in the UK. Uroosa Arshid, 27, from Aspley, Nottinghamshire, first knew she wanted to become a firefighter when she was a little girl and firefighters visited her school to do a fire safety talk. “I remember looking up to them and thinking this is incredible,” she tells Yahoo UK. “They’re like real life superheroes and I knew from then that's what I wanted to do.” But it was only when she started looking into the training that Arshid
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